Genetic linkage analysis in the age of whole-genome sequencing

Nature Reviews Genetics

Volumn 16, Issue 5, 2015, Pages 275-284

  Ott, Jurg ^a,b   Wang, Jing ^a   Leal, Suzanne M ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^b ROCKEFELLER UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOSOMAL DOMINANT INHERITANCE; CHROMOSOME; GENE FREQUENCY; GENE MAPPING; GENE SEQUENCE; GENETIC ASSOCIATION; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; LINKAGE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; PRACTICE GUIDELINE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE POLYMORPHISM; ALGORITHM; DNA SEQUENCE; FEMALE; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUE; HUMAN GENOME; LOD SCORE; MALE; PEDIGREE; PENETRANCE; PROCEDURES; SOFTWARE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

ALGORITHMS; FEMALE; GENETIC LINKAGE; GENOME, HUMAN; GENOME-WIDE ASSOCIATION STUDY; GENOTYPING TECHNIQUES; HUMANS; LOD SCORE; MALE; PEDIGREE; PENETRANCE; PHENOTYPE; POLYMORPHISM, SINGLE NUCLEOTIDE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA; SOFTWARE;

EID: 84928215290     PISSN: 14710056     EISSN: 14710064     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrg3908     Document Type: Review

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